Re: adventures with window managers

From: Adam Hardy (adam.ant_at_cyberspaceroad.com)
Date: 09/14/05

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    Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:46:35 +0100
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    Cybe R. Wizard on 14/09/05 13:38, wrote:
    > IceWM can do that. (but multiple desktops are /so/ cool!)
    >
    > I think you'd be happy with IceWM as it is configurable to do most of
    > what you want so far. In addition you'll need Iceconf or Icepref for
    > configuration.

    Thanks for those tips. Got most of it configured at least in enlightenment.

    So I just tried icewm.

    I came unstuck pretty quickly. Firstly it didn't really like gnome and
    took about 3 mins to start up instead of 5 secs. I think it has
    something to do with the gnome-session although it's difficult to tell.
    Some other window managers have the same problem.

    Once icewm was running, I tried configuring it.

    I didn't get a list of fonts to choose from. Shouldn't there be a
    drop-down font list in iceconf?

    I'm not sure about the icewm panel. It looked like it had a fixed set of
    applets, and there are a few more I like, such as the keyboard locale
    chooser, program launchers, volume control etc which icewm doesn't
    appear to have.

    The program switcher panel which comes up when pressing alt-tab is good,
    but I know there's an even better one out there where they are listed
    vertically. Can this be changed for another program-switcher module in
    icewm? 

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